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[Noctivagus]

I find I'm unable to watch a movie when it's got captions. I am too poor at splitting my attention between reading and paying attention to the film. Either I read or I watch tv. Not both.

Ditto as far as I am concerned. I too think its a multi-tasking issue.

[Noctivagus]

I find it easier to watch a film with captions on, as I find it far easier to understand what is being said and process the information.

My daughter Rachael loves watching movies with the Sub-Titles switched on... especially if they are 'Audio Discriptive'. She adores reading.

[Sophist]

I find I'm unable to watch a movie when it's got captions. I am too poor at splitting my attention between reading and paying attention to the film. Either I read or I watch tv. Not both.

Ditto as far as I am concerned. I too think its a multi-tasking issue.

So I guess we're both out of luck when watching foreign films.

[Noctivagus]

I find I'm unable to watch a movie when it's got captions. I am too poor at splitting my attention between reading and paying attention to the film. Either I read or I watch tv. Not both.

Ditto as far as I am concerned. I too think its a multi-tasking issue.

So I guess we're both out of luck when watching foreign films.

Yet there are foreign films I'd dearly love to watch... I wish dubbing was not so much out of favour these days

[Sophist]

I find I'm unable to watch a movie when it's got captions. I am too poor at splitting my attention between reading and paying attention to the film. Either I read or I watch tv. Not both.

Ditto as far as I am concerned. I too think its a multi-tasking issue.

So I guess we're both out of luck when watching foreign films.

Yet there are foreign films I'd dearly love to watch... I wish dubbing was not so much out of favour these days

I've found dubbing to be distracting too though, because so often they choose actors who you know sound NOTHING like the original actor and so it ends up being rather comical.

[SomethingElse]

I hate dubbed films as I find them too distracting, but I like subtitles. Can take some 'warming up' to get used to reading and watching at the same time (I'm usually awful at multi-tasking ), though.

[Charlie]

I find I'm unable to watch a movie when it's got captions. I am too poor at splitting my attention between reading and paying attention to the film. Either I read or I watch tv. Not both.

Ditto as far as I am concerned. I too think its a multi-tasking issue.

So I guess we're both out of luck when watching foreign films.

Yet there are foreign films I'd dearly love to watch... I wish dubbing was not so much out of favour these days

I've found dubbing to be distracting too though, because so often they choose actors who you know sound NOTHING like the original actor and so it ends up being rather comical.

I find that with dubbing that as I seem to spend a lot of time looking on the mouth region, with the mismatch of mouth shape to word it gets too confusing to keep track. Well not confusing as such, but comedically surreal. I also agree with the way the new voices sound - they sound out of place in the film and sound unnatural (but I wouldn't go as far as saying that they sound nothing like the original actor like Sophist, as when the film is dubbed how would you know what the original actor sounds like )

[Charlie]

I wish dubbing was not so much out of favour these days

I still occasionally use dubbin, but only on my football boots.

[Noctivagus]

There is good dubbing and there is bad dubbing.

Actually... a lot of what you hear in movies is dubbed, even if not into a different language and by different actors. Its called Looping or ADR. It can be by the same actor or a different one.

Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger, in 'Goldfinger' couldn't speak English and learned his lines by phonetically... but he had such a bad accent, that his dialogue was replaced by another actor so his voice isn't heard on the movie - likewise Honey Ryder's (Ursula Andress) dialogue is the voice of a different actress.

Most of the time on film, you are hearing dubbed voice work and not what actually came out of the actors' mouths at the same time as the image of them speaking.

Of course, bad dubbing, especially if it is a foreign language film can be distracting. However, with good dubbing, the chances are that you will not notice unless you are looking out for it

I just wish there was a way you could watch a foreign film either subtitled or dubbed so that everybody was happy.

[SomethingElse]

In 'regular' dubbing, if something is slightly out (I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, which is annoying me because there's a point in Hook that always bugs me even though I know it's coming where I think it's Rufio seeming to say something different to what you hear) it really shows, or if the actor was saying something slightly different. That bugs me enough let alone in 'dubbed dubbed' films, where it doesn't match up at all.

[renaeden]

There are some films that take time for me to process. It took watching The Fifth Element three times to understand what the movie was about.

[Noctivagus]

It took watching The Fifth Element three times to understand what the movie was about.

Was it worth it?

Some films just try to be so 'clever' that they are actually not clever at all. The most clever type of film is one which can be easilly followed but gives you pause to think. These over-complicated and mysterious things are just the Story-Teller trying to display how clever he is at the expense of the audience... and I think that is foolish rather than clever.

Clever stuff... truly clever stuff, is more likely to seem simple.

Next time you do not understand a movie, just remember its probably only because the film-makers are daft

[renaeden]

Haha Nocti.
I chose that film as an example, it was the first one I thought of. I have also had difficulty with all of the Star Wars movies - so much that I still don't know what they are about. I definitely prefer Star Trek, my favourite movie being First Contact.

[Noctivagus]

I have also had difficulty with all of the Star Wars movies...

Well four out of the six are daft anyway So you've not missed much

My favourite Star Trek movie is 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture'... though in my opinion, 'The Wrath of Khan' was the best movie in the series

[Aspen]

I have also had difficulty with all of the Star Wars movies...

Well four out of the six are daft anyway So you've not missed much

My favourite Star Trek movie is 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture'... though in my opinion, [b]'The Wrath of Khan' was the best movie in the series[/b]

I think that "The Wrath of Khan" was the best Star Trek movie, too.

I think that the even ones were better than the odd ones.